I have a confession to make about a secret obsession I harbor: I am a huge fan of a television show called River Monsters. It stars a charmingly oddball Englishman with bad teeth (is that redundant?) named Jeremy Wade, who calls himself an "extreme fisherman," and fancies himself something of a piscine detective ...

The Simpson and Zimmerman cases: Race should not have played a role.

It's mid-summer. The July doldrums are here. And by doldrums, I don't mean the weather, which has been pretty stellar. No, I'm talking about the news doldrums, the dearth of anything worth reporting in the national media ...